Miracles: A Call to Repentance and Faith

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"Then he began to denounce Jesus began to denounce the cities where most of his mighty works had been done because they did not repent woe to you causing woe to you bethsaida for if the mighty works done in you had been done in tyre and Sidon they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes but I tell you it will be more bearable on the day of judgment for tyre and sidon than for you." [00:55:17]

"The aim of the mighty works of Jesus then he began to denounce the cities where most of his mighty works had been done that would include things like healing and exorcisms and multiplying loaves and fishes and walking on water but this is talking about doing them in City so probably not walking on water but that kind of thing where most of his mighty works had been done because they did not repent." [01:48:27]

"Repentance is the goal of the mighty works that's so important to see just dwell on it think about it many times we are given to believe by those who emphasize healing that human betterment things going better for us not going insane who demons are not being lame are not being blind or not being hard of hearing or not having leprosy is the primary goal of the healing it's not the primary goal is repentance." [02:30:78]

"The mighty works of Jesus have as their main design repentance and we're healing happens and repentance doesn't happen woes are going to come it your your situation is going to be worse because you were healed if you don't repent here's observation number two and it's more striking yet this denunciation is happening on cities where most of his mighty works had been done." [03:19:98]

"In those cities where most of his mighty works had been done they were not meeting with repentance and repentance in the Gospels always is correlated with faith or belief repent and believe is the command these are two sides of the same coin where there's no repentance there's no faith repentance is turning from unbelief and sin to faith and obedience and faith is what happens when you turn from lack of faith." [04:11:22]

"Jesus has the power to do his mighty works anytime anywhere he wants without any respect to a person's faith and repentance no having said that look at this and they took offense at him at Nazareth but Jesus said to them a prophet is not without honor except in his hometown and in his own household and he did not do many mighty works there he did not because of their unbelief." [05:27:27]

"In this case the absence of belief meant not doing many mighty works even though here most of his mighty works were done in cities where they weren't believing so in Nazareth he doesn't do many mighty works because of their unbelief mark is even stronger he doesn't just say he did not he says he cannot look at this mark 6 Jesus said to them a prophet is not without honor except in his hometown." [06:06:78]

"He could do no mighty work there except that he laid his hands on a few sick people and healed them and he marveled because of their unbelief so here there's a correlation between unbelief and can do no mighty work just as in Mathew at 1358 there's a correlation between unbelief and did not do many mighty work or to state it the other way here there's a correlation between believing and doing many mighty works." [06:46:89]

"This could not here is not an ultimate could not as though the son of God Jesus Christ did not have the intrinsic power to do anything he please with regard to leprosy or blindness or multiplying loaves and fish are walking on water he can do anything he please he's God this could not is the kind of could not that arises if Jesus resolves to correlate belief and a mighty work." [08:27:12]

"He cannot break that resolve he doesn't break resolves so the cannot is created not by intrinsic inability but by his establishing a correlation between belief and mighty work which must have been the case for some reason in his hometown of Nazareth you he basically walks into that town and he says I am NOT going to do mighty works here where I meet with unbelief." [09:29:31]

"Therefore when he meets unbelief he says I can do no mighty works here because he has established that plan this verse here is massively important number one all his mighty works aim at repentance number two he did most of his mighty works where people did not believe three more observations next time." [10:07:65]

"Repentance is the goal of the mighty works that's so important to see just dwell on it think about it many times we are given to believe by those who emphasize healing that human betterment things going better for us not going insane who demons are not being lame are not being blind or not being hard of hearing or not having leprosy is the primary goal of the healing it's not the primary goal is repentance." [02:30:78]

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